I was raised in a Christian family of the sort where I had been warned about the Christian aspects of Narnia before I'd even read the books (age eight), and, TBH, my main reaction, even then, is that it's not a very *good* Christ metaphor, in that it misses the point rather dramatically and from several different directions, and (though I wouldn't have put it this way at age eight) ignores *all* of the specifically Christian elements that make Christ distinct from any other of the dozens of sacrifical god/kings in the world. I mean, I've read *explicitly* Pagan tellings of the Solar King story that felt more Christian than Aslan did.
Jack Lewis's -- *interesting* relationship over time with Christianity and myth, and his influence on/influencing by certain 20th century Christian (and pagan) revivalist movements -- makes it something I would be really interested in analysing if I could read Lewis' theology without wanting to thump things, but yeah. The reason LWW often doesn't strike people as Christian is that it is only particularly Christian if you subscribe to one peculiar tunnel-vision version of Christianity.
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Date: 2011-01-17 21:04 (UTC)Jack Lewis's -- *interesting* relationship over time with Christianity and myth, and his influence on/influencing by certain 20th century Christian (and pagan) revivalist movements -- makes it something I would be really interested in analysing if I could read Lewis' theology without wanting to thump things, but yeah. The reason LWW often doesn't strike people as Christian is that it is only particularly Christian if you subscribe to one peculiar tunnel-vision version of Christianity.